Day |
Time EDT |
Panel |
Presenter |
Title |
Friday, July 7 |
7 - 9 am |
Log in, please contact help@bighistory.org with any questions. |
Friday, July 7 |
7 – 9 am |
Round table. Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. |
Friday, July 7 |
9 – 10:15 am |
Opening
Keynote |
Daniel Barreiros
Fred Spier |
Welcome!
How did
humanity get itself into its current ecological
predicament? |
Friday, July 7 |
10:15 – 10:30 |
Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. |
Friday,
July 7 |
10:30 – 12:15 |
Complexity in Big History |
David LePoire |
Complexity Workshop |
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Lowell
Gustafson |
Emergent Complexity:
A Rationale for the University |
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Andrey Korotayev |
Patterns of complexity
growth in the Big History.
A preliminary quantitative analysis |
Friday, July 7 |
12:15 – 12:30 |
Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. |
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Friday, July 7 |
12:30 – 1:15 pm |
Concepts and Applications |
Introduced by Lowell Gustafson |
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Gustavo Lau |
Some Applications of a Big
History Concept |
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Friday, July 7 |
1:15 – 2:45 pm |
Complexity Concepts,
Education & Applications |
Panel Chair: Andrey Korotayev |
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Ken Baskin |
The Practical Application of
Complexity Science to Enhance Big History |
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Mark Ciotola |
Resource-Based Predecessor
and Parallel Schools of Thought to Big History |
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Paul Narguizian |
Big History: Integrating
Complexity in Biology Education |
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Friday, July 7 |
2:45 – 4:15 |
Complexity and Civilization |
Panel Chair: Lowell Gustafson |
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Tony Harper |
The Interaction Between
Complexity And Entropy Over Human History As
Exemplified By Changes In Urbanization |
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Stephen Satkiewicz |
Social Complexity and War
from a Big History Perspective |
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Friday, July 7 |
4:30 – 5:30 pm |
Gravitational Waves |
Introduced by Lowell Gustafson |
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Amber Stuver |
Probing to the Depths of the Universe with Gravitational Waves |
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Friday, July 7 |
5:30 – 7:00 |
SETI and Big History |
Panel Chair: David LePoire |
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Claudio Maccone |
Big History Mathematical Formulae: b-lognormals, logpars and logells, with examples. |
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Nicolò Antonietti |
Habitable Galactic Islands in the Milky Way. |
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Friday, July 7 |
7 – 9 pm |
Big Socioeconomic History |
Panel Chair: Daniel Barreiros |
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Daniel Vainfas |
Class, Commerce and Climate:
an investigation on a set of circumstances for the rise of capitalism in 15th
century England |
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Felipe Blois |
Civilization and Technology:
antientropic concepts, tools and consequences |
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Bernardo Nery |
The question of property and
trade: cognition, behavior and human evolution |
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Friday July 7 |
9 - 9:15 pm |
Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Daniel Barreiros. |
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Friday, July 7 |
9:15 pm |
Little and Local Big History |
Nobuo Tsujimura
Kenji Ichikawa |
Introduction
Layered Structure of Little Big History
― Case Study of Enoshima, Japan |
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Friday, July 7 |
Following Kenjo Ichikawa's presentation and discussion, please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Nobuo Tsujimura. |
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Saturday July 8 |
Saturday July 8 |
2:00 am (EDT) |
Finite Resources, Infinite Greed: Deconstructing the Infrastructural Progress in the Philippines
Panel Chair: Ma. Rubeth R. Hipolito |
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Lady Mary Felizziety J. Daguay |
Godwin C. Pring |
Juan Gabriel C. Simbulan |
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Saturday, July 8 |
6 am |
Civic Engagement |
Lowell Gustafson
Adalberto Codetta |
Introduction
'Big History' and 'Global Civics': the impact of the Big History vision on the concept of Global Civics |
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Hirofumi Katayama |
Accelerationism versus Deep Time: Chronopolitics in the Anthropocene |
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Saturday, July 8 |
7 - 9 am - |
Science, Environment and Society – STEAM
Education and Big
History in Hong Kong |
Aidan Wong |
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Alexis Lau |
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Rachel Oser |
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Saturday, July 8 |
9 – 10:30 am |
Mega & Microbial
Evolution |
Panel Chair: Andrey Korotayv |
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Leonid Grinin |
Megaevolution: Its Main and Transitional Phases |
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Anton Grinin |
Viruses and Evolution |
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Leonid Grinin |
Chemical Evolution in Big
History |
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Saturday, July 8 |
10:30 – 10:45 am |
Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Andrey Korotayev |
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Saturday, July 8 |
10:45 am – 12:15 pm |
Where are we going? |
Panel Chair: Ken Solis |
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Nick Nielsen |
Big History for ETI:
Recognizing Parochial and Non-Parochial Forms of Complexity |
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Alexander Panov |
Big History in the Galaxy:
risks of contacts with alien civilizations |
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Marc
Widdowson |
The last stop on the cosmic
journey: an estimated time of arrival |
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Saturday, July 8 |
12:15 – 12:30 |
Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Ken Solis |
Saturday,
July 8 |
12:30 -
1:30 pm |
Introduced by David LePoire |
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Peter Turchin |
Keynote
Speaker |
Cliodynamics: History
as Science |
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Saturday, July 8 |
1:30 – 1:45 |
Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by David LePoire |
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Saturday, July 8 |
1:45 – 3:15 pm |
Complexity of
Complexity
Periodization |
Panel Chair: Paul Narguizian |
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Max Barnett |
6 Steps to the Anthropocene:
Mapping Complexity from Foragers to the Anthropocene |
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Nick Hoggard |
Complexity in the Thirteen
Threshold Theory of Evolution |
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David LePoire |
Energy Flow & Complexity in Cosmic Phase |
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Sat, July 8 |
3:30 – 5:00 pm |
The Biohistory of Feminism |
Panel Chair: Lowell Gustafson |
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Abel A. Alves |
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Carol Blakney |
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Sat, July 8 |
5:15 om |
Big History in Primary Education |
Marilyn Ahearn |
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Saturday, July 8 |
7 – 9 pm |
War, Politics, and Big History: between
structure and contingency |
Panel Chair: Daniel Barreiros |
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Beatriz Pimentel,
Daniel Vainfas |
Chimpanzee behaviour and Clausewitzian war: differences and similarities in the realms of politics and conflict |
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Walter Silva |
The Evolutionary Roots of Warfare and Its Ecological Conditions |
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Daniel Barreiros |
Social Classes and Social Cognition in Capitalism: The Enmeshment of Social Institutions and Human Ethology |
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Saturday, July 8 |
9 pm - 11 pm |
New Visions |
Panel Chair: Nobuo Tsujimura |
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Nobuo Tsujimura |
The “Big Twist”: For making big history multicultural and multinatural |
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S Darshan |
The Awakening of Common Consciousness: AGI and the Transition to a Resource-Based Economy |
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Spencer Striker |
Empires & Interconnections for iPad | Challenging Students with Wicked Problems in History |
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Saturday, July 8 |
11 pm |
Reflections on Colonization and Globalization as Neutralizing Factors of Filipino Culture
Panel Chair: Ma. Rubeth R. Hipolito |
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Lorenzo Miguel N. Guarin |
John Matthew C. Sausora |
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Sunday, July 9 |
Sunday, July 9 |
7:15 – 8:45 am |
The Manifestation of Greed in Consumer Electronics: A Filipino Big Historian's Analysis of Resource Scarcity
Panel Chair: Ma. Rubeth R. Hipolito |
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Rhod Railey T. De Vera |
Kirsten Dwayne A. Dizon |
Fritzgerald Gonzales |
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Sunday July 9 |
9 – 10:30 am |
Digital and AI
Perspectives |
Panel Chair: Andrey Korotayev |
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Sergy
Grinchenko |
Big History in the Digital Perspective |
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Ekaterina Sashienko |
Evolutionary prospects for
the development of AI |
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Andrey M.
Burovsky |
The most general patterns of
Big History |
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Sunday July 9 |
10:30 - 10:45 |
Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Andrey Korotayev |
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Sunday July 9 |
10:45 am – 12:45 pm |
Stories, Language,
and Ultimate Reality |
Panel Chair: David LePoire |
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Jenna Thompson |
Enlarging Our Map of Reality: Exploring
the Threshold Between Thoughts and Words |
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John Hasse |
The Nexus of Storytelling and Collective
Learning: A symbiotic spark for human emergence |
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Todd Duncan |
Fundamental Physics and Big History:
Exploring Perspectives on Ultimate Reality |
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Sunday, July 9 |
12:45 – 1:00 |
Please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by David LePoire |
Sunday July 9 |
1:00 - 1:30 pm |
Human Rights |
Daniel Barreiros
Rob Grace |
Introduction
Human Rights: A Big History Perspective |
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Sunday July 9 |
1:30 - 3:00
pm |
Cosmic Reconsiderations |
Panel Chair: Paul Narguizian |
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Barry Borgerson |
Conquering Automatic Human Activities to Construct Threshold 9 |
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Tyler Volk
and Gregg Henriques |
A framework toward a Big History 2.0 |
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Ken Solis |
Cosmic
Evolution – A Critical Appraisal of Energy Rate Density |
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3:00 - 4:00 |
Members’ Meeting |
IBHA Members |
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Sunday July 9 |
4:00 – 5:30 pm |
Emerging Big History |
Panel Chair: Lowell Gustafson |
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Gustavo Lau |
An Abstract Data Type inspired by Big History |
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David LePoire |
What can AI do for Big History? |
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Anonymous |
Contributions of AI to Big History |
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5:30 - 7 pm |
Conclusion |
Andrey Korotayev, David LePoire,
Daniel Barreiros |
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Sunday, July 9 |
7:00 - 9:00
pm |
Big History
Authors' Roundtable |
David
Christian, Ursula Goodenough, David LePoire,
Lowell Gustafson |
Sunday, July 9 |
Following the authors' rountable, please join one of the tables for informal conversation with others. Hosted by Daniel Barreiros |